In a matchbox styled row-house in a small neighborhood of South East Asia, I leaned over my friends shoulder and tried to tug the black colored joystick from him. It was my turn to play Pacman on his computer but he wasn’t budging!! I had very little leeway here, as…

A dreary and overcast day it truly was in 2010, with bursts of light showers every now and then. In what seemed like a pointless wait till eternity for clear skies, I made a dash in the pouring rain to the nearest shelter in the sprawled out tech campus. Dripping…

and why this could get much worse, before it could ever get any better ..

In the late summer of 2018, when travelling between cities was done without even batting an eyelid and the only face coverings you ever saw were the ones worn by traffic policeman, I travelled to…

Kiran: “So you’re a Biden supporter?”

Me: “Err .. well in this scenario, he may not be the most ideal, but he’s the best fighting chance they have”

Kiran: “Really, do you think Biden will be good for India?”

Me: “Errr .. Good in what sense?”

Kiran: “Come on, everyone…

“We need to cover out faces whenever we go out, why don’t you have a mask”!! stomped my colleague on the tarmac on our way out to the cafe. …

Math has always been a wonder to me. Growing up in an Asian classroom I was expected to take so many things at face value, unquestionably, such as the letter ‘e’ in Mathematics. “Now what the hell is e”? .. on one of the footnotes I found my answer —…

It was a chill November evening in downtown San Francisco and I was taking a stroll at Pier 39. The Pier was crowded with just a few weeks to go before Christmas and the sun had began to set. I soon stumbled upon a crowd hovering around a painter who…

“Alright!! The latest Covid-19 Datasets are on Kaggle. Your time starts — Now!!” The teams leaned forward with their eyes glued to their blue laptop screens. The downloads had already begun. Over the next few days, they would sift through pandemic data, shuffle it and try to diagnose what it…